Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on borrowed time . |
| 2 | I was at that time in Jesus Christ , Superstar . |
| 3 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 4 | I was at that time really completely persuaded of the relevance and interest of this approach and of this subject matter . |
| 5 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 6 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 7 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 8 | I was at one time er the ph printer Not the photographer but the printer for erm a free hand out paper called the Islander . |
| 9 | Oh , I only pay dutiful visits now , ’ Rose went on , ‘ but I was at one time very frequently here . |
| 10 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 11 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 12 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 13 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 14 | I ca n't begin to say how supportive she was at that time . ’ |
| 15 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
| 16 | She was at this time a large , middle-aged woman whose name I shall not mention . |
| 17 | She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book . |
| 18 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
| 19 | She was by this time . |
| 20 | Again , sweetish , not unpleasant ; she was in that time of her youth when ripeness in any form spelt pleasure . |
| 21 | Yeah , wh when you was on short time , ooh yeah . |
| 22 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 23 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
| 24 | It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate . |
| 25 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 26 | It was about this time that Endill began hearing footsteps echoing around the corridors of Nightside . |
| 27 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
| 28 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 29 | It was about this time that Scott found out that Charles Barry junior had distributed a paper to MPs pressing his own claim to the Foreign Office . |
| 30 | It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers . |